Mining and Crafting

stealing-your-wife:

rockpapertheodore:

rockpapertheodore:

Please imagine some warrior culture (e.g. Klingons) getting super into video game esports in a relatively war-less setting and just getting insane about it

Like everyone at first thinks “haha, they probably don’t understand video games because they’re a bunch of bloodthirsty brutes” and it’s a fuckin Space Orc Sweep at the Space Esports Tournament. Orc Devin, a scrawny nerd of an orc, gets absolutely HOISTED by his yoked-to-the-nines parents who are just so proud that their weakest son is their most victorious warrior. His fighting is done with more finesse, battling with his hands, mind, and eyes instead of RIPPLING BICEPS and POWERFUL GUTS and BARREL-CRUSHING THIGHS, but he battles nonetheless. His space hometown honors him with his own sword and a plaque. They rent out a space billboard bragging about how Orc Devin kicked everyone’s asses and was the Most Badass Motherfucker in this cool new digital warfare they are now starting to get probably too-into as a culture.

WHERE NATURE DID NOT FAVOUR HIM AT BIRTH, HE SOUGHT OUT BATTLE NONETHELESS.

CRUSHING NOT THE BODIES OF HIS OPPONENTS, BUT THEIR VERY MINDS AND SPIRITS.

LIMITED NOT BY THE REACH OF A SWORD, HIS CONQUESTS AND VICTORIES SPAN THE UNIVERSE.

A NOBLE WARRIOR INDEED.

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ysolt:

me in the pussy if im being fully honest

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paintingpuff:

Keep reading

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enki2:

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garlicdog:

yamada-ryo:

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maamlet:

me: man my job sucks i want to play video games or somethin

the nefarious anglerfish:

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dduane:

lierdumoa:

Cringe started as a verb describing a physical reaction, i.e.: “I cringe when I see [x].”

Modern slang has turned cringe into an adjective describing anything to which a person might have such a reaction.

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This shift in language is illustrative of a shift in culture.

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For a while there, in the early 2000s, there was this big sex positivity movement and we talked openly about kink and queer sexuality and creating a culture of consent that broke away from traditional conservative ideas of moral respectability.

And now we are in the midst of this giant purity culture backlash, this giant push for rigid conformity all over the internet. Anything that deviates from the norm even remotely is ridiculed.

And this cultural shift is perfectly encapsulated in this singular linguistic shift, this verb becoming a noun.

The Revenge of the Pearl Clutchers

That’s what “cringing” is. It’s pearl clutching.

When the pearl clutchers turned cringe into an adjective, they turned a reaction into an accusation. The pearl clutchers don’t want to take responsibility for their own kneejerk emotions. They want to blame YOU.

They are saying, “My disgust isn’t the fault of my own backwards prejudices. It is YOU who are inherently disgusting. My inability to cope with even the slightest deviation from norm is not the problem here. YOUR refusal to rigidly conform is the problem. I am not the one who is cringing. YOU are the one who is cringe.”

Fuck ‘em.

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Take the word back.

Cringe is not something people are.

It’s something judgmental assholes do.

This. THANK YOU.

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froody:

froody:

he’s got that previously neglected shelter dog rizz. he looks like he wants to quietly sit next to you on the couch while you watch TV

he looks like he lets out a pathetic sad little sigh sometimes for no reason

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xenobotanist:

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plaidos:

i hate that troll has become a generic word for hater on the web. back in my day the only people worthy of the title were the guys managing to convince an entire forum thread that he really thought Samus Aran was a man called “Super Metroid”

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